there are like fifteen no doubt threads but none explicitly c/d so i thought i'd make a thread for this song because it RULES
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's 2012 and we can release a 6 minute single with a dub outro
awesome
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
sounds a surprising lot like no doubt
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
sounds like one of the blander deep cuts off Rock Steady tbh
lol the shot a minute in where i'm like "oh no Gwen is smuggling one of the Harajuku girls in her truck, look out guys it's a SOLO RECORD!"
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
this is terrible
the vocals sound like they were put on the wrong song
― Yeah and I ~obstruction~ you/ya fucking blind cunt (pause) fucking k (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
that's the patented "gwen stefani sound"
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is one of the few cases where I'll say that the band who made a singer famous is absolutely holding him/her back now.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
from what? getting together pharrell and trying to take the night back from ke$ha?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don't know what she'd do, but it would be different and likely better than this.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol no it wouldn't, did you forget about "Rich Girl" already
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Rich Girl" is kind of silly, but I'll go to bat for L.A.M.B. as a whole.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
you misspelled "hole"
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
prefer rock steady to any solo gwen or previous no doubt
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like both of her solo albums pretty uniformly. Haven't liked a No Doubt track since "Ex-Girlfriend".
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think she's been good for at least a couple good songs and a lot of smh for pretty much album with or without the band, but Rock Steady prob had the highest ratio of the former over the latter
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
also I would like to remind ppl that Gwen released this as the lead single to her second solo album:
now let me be clear: I LIKE GWEN STEFANI AND I LIKE NO DOUBT
let's not pretend like she is an immaculate singles artist, tho
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
in fact, the borderline self-sabotaging streak that runs through some of her single choices is one of the most endearing things about her
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
this post has popped into my head regularly at the sight of gwen stefani for over 10 years now:
Wyndham Earl wrote this on thread No Doubt's Hey Hey Baby as paen to anal sex? on board I Love Music on Jan 31, 2002it IS isn't it? the way she slaps her arse and wiggles her eyebrows suggestively at every mention of 'the boys get the girls in the *back*'. and that mock-horrified look at the end of the video..
i actually find gwen stefani to be the unfathomable woman in the universe. i just don't fucking understand her at all, can't work it out. from that coy ultra ultra girliness to those REALLY ODD gestures and facial expressions she makes in her videos.
it's like trying to talk to Lassie. WHAT IS SHE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE?
it's like the woman in the red dress in Fire Walk With Me. whatthefuck??!?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahahaha yes
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
wtf, I like "Wind It Up" (and did when it was new)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
"wind it up" rules
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
i have very mixed feelings about "wind it up" but i like it more than i don't
new no doubt single otoh is kinda eh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah "Wind It Up" grew on me
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
outfits and hairstyles may have changed but wow these guys do not appear to have aged a day in 15 years.
― Roz, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
No Doubt's drummer is having almost as much trouble accepting that he's too old for guyliner as Green Day's drummer is, though
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
They actually shot this video in 1999. No Doubt is a long term project.
Also, they're sitting on 40-50 other videos that will turn up periodically well into the 2040s.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like "Wind It Up" too but it's an insane choice for a lead single
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
there is like ONE angle you see Gwen from at a few points in the video that makes me think oh she's starting to look a little "old" but by that i mean over 30 and not over 40 like she ridiculously actually is (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'll rep for l.a.m.b as a 90% stellar pop album, albeit one that can be blamed for a lot of the worst things about pop subsequently. stefani's second album was strange, there really seemed to be so little effort put into it - it was like a bunch of random shitty cast-offs she found while tidying the studio one day, plus one unexpectedly great ballad ("early winter"). "wind it up" is an embarrassment.
i only like a handful of no doubt songs but i LOVE those ("hella good" and "don't speak" and er um i think that's it). i'm not feeling this on first listen really, it might grow on me.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
ok the dub outro might be the only thing I like about this right now.
― Roz, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's def the best part
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm amazed by how much I like this!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's interesting to compare it to what Garbage (probably their closest contemporaries in terms of pop-not-pop bands still clinging on) are doing with their comeback.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 22:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
diplo has done a track for them featuring busy signal it seems
call me crazy but i could kinda go for basically a major lazer album with gwen on
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:09 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
kind of par for her solo career no? it was her first top 10 single since rich girl a year before and hollaback girl right before that. at that point 'insanity' was basically her entire thing.
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
er rich girl came before hollaback, but still
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
YES
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 05:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
this song is amazing
― surm, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh thank god, i thought i was alone there for a bit
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
chorus is massive
definitely not alone
― surm, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
+1 great song
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Don't like this band, but I like this song. I have no problem with the group being back.
Suddenly had a flashback to seeing Tony Kanal's supergroup stint with Perry Farrell and Nuno Bettencourt! Lol at wiki's sendoff: "Perry Farrell now remains the only permanent member."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
Three for one sale on the hair bleach for the No Doubt crew eh? This song is better than I expected it would be. Pretty fun!I really liked "Wind It Up" – Lonely Goatherd sample! But the rest of that album was too boring to go on. I'd really loved LMAB too
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
I mean LAMB
Three for one sale on the hair bleach for the No Doubt crew eh?
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:44 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah i totally hadnt realised gunther from friends was in this band til now
― r|t|c, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
song packs more of a punch every time
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
No Doubt is just one of those bands where i have a hard time distinguishing whether the vibe is 'Californian' or 'lobotomized'
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
in that case i think you may have them confused with the post 1992 Red Hot Chili Peppers
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^^
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
No Doubt is a case of a band having enthusiasm and the right influences but produces second-rate product. Like, these guys' music sounds like they don't think much.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
their party-rock skank is recorded by and for party-rock skanks. I don't know -- I've always wanted to like them.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
can we take a quick turn off the main road and talk about "Cool" by Gwen Stefani
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
or is that not allowed
Probably the best No Doubt related song ever.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like "Cool."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
:) :)
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like rock steady a bunch but i tried to listen to return of saturn the other day, full of hope & love for "bathwater", and lol
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
for some reason i own the beacon street collection though
I like the one where she wanted a simple kind of life before going multiplatinum again with their party rock album.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
last time i listened to tragic kingdom i realized it's half ridiculous filler
it's okay though b/c that album has "sunday morning," the best song ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
so good that song
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
i would listen to the breeders' glorious on saturday, and sunday morning on sunday for a perfect weekend of waking up
Cool is so good.
― owenf, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
kills me tbh
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
coo cooool
― owenf, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
I just watched the video for sunday morning. It is a really good song.
― owenf, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
I love how his neck hair looks coming out of that T-shirt collar.
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
Wait wrong thread.
girrrrrrrrrl
― surm, Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
tbh I was talking about jjjusten's dog
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
I thought the same of No Doubt's drummer.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
i really like this new song http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/no-doubt-f-busy-signal-push-and-shove-prod-major-lazer-new-music/#axzz252aVKAoe
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 August 2012 14:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
hmm
that's something that in my youth i would tell myself to keep listening to until it transpires but now i p much already know never will
def not boring though
― r|t|c, Thursday, 30 August 2012 15:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
i love this song
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 August 2012 15:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
We be on another level like we doin' yoga
― mizzell, Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
it's times like this that i marvel that people seem to just be kind of ok with gwen stefani as a vocalist and aren't constantly horrified by most of what she does
― some dude, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
her voice fulfills a certain niche
― surm, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
well it did 5 or 15 years ago. pop now is full of post-gwen olive oyls, many of whom are less actively annoying.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:27 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is how i feel about avril, who iirc some dude is a fan of
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
i like a few avril songs. probably about as many as gwen/no doubt songs. they're both pretty terrible in general, but in specific contexts work well.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
and i mean to avril's credit she's never done a raggamuffin accent
lol how is raggamuffin even a word
― surm, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
ummmmm this song
― surm, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
that chorus!
― surm, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
no wait i love "settle down"
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Friday, 31 August 2012 21:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.avclub.com/articles/no-doubt-yanks-looking-hot-video-after-it-upsets-s,88317/
― how's life, Monday, 5 November 2012 16:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
noooooooo now gwen's perfect track record is ruined
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Monday, 5 November 2012 22:01 (6 months ago) Permalink
i don't think i should listen to "Cool" in public bc i basically just start crying
― surm, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:52 (5 months ago) Permalink
yeah that is a very beautiful, poignant song
― 2 Celloz (some dude), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
I know right
I'd put that one up against the entire no doubt catalogue
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:41 (5 months ago) Permalink
yeah
gwen's got a kickass cover of Vogue atm
― surm, Friday, 4 January 2013 15:41 (4 months ago) Permalink